MY EXPERIMENTS WITH HOME BUSINESS-Part -2

Please refer my earlier post on My experiments with home business - part-1. (written in Feb-09)

Since reading emails could not fetch any cash, I decided to earn (?) differently. This time, I wanted to try on surveys.

So, I joined in surveyscout.com by paying some $ 35. I think this was in 2004. They sent me a link to join different survey companies and advised me to create a separate email id (which is common for all the survey companies) and I did it.

Evenththough they gave me more than 150 links, I joined as many as 50 survey websites only.

I received many surveys but the interesting thing is, when I gave honest answers, I did not get qualified for many surveys.

Surveyscout.com has got a refund system, that is if you do not earn any amount within 60 days from the date of joining, they will refund the 100% amount back to your account.

I applied for refund (since I have not earned any cent out of survey) they did not ask me any question and refunded the entire amount to my paypal account where I paid the amount to them at the time of joining.

I have to appreciate this company (surveyscout.com) for their service ,sincerity, honesty.

This experience gave me enough idea, how to get qualified by giving the answers they expect. (honestly speaking incorrect answers) .

Few surveys were not applicable to my area (India). But, in many cases, I failed in preliminary survey (for honest answers). Eventhough, I knew how to overcome this preliminary survey, I did not want to do that. Also, I did not have patient to complete the survey which took more than 20 minutes. I have completed few surveys by giving honest answers also. They gave me some points, some informed me that my name would be put in a pool for a lucky draw etc.

In the survey invitation itself, you will know what you are going to get after completion of the survey. (in dollars or points or to be sent for lucky draw).

During first week, I attempted almost all the surveys. Whether it gives dollars, points or lucky draws. The result is, I failed to qualify for next level.

During second week, I skipped lucky draw surveys.

During third week, I skipped points surveys and started to concentrate on dollar surveys only.

At that time, I was having dial up connection for internet and most of the dollar surveys I missed to complete due to the low band width connectivity. It took very long time to load each page. Some times, I get page load error, timeout error, this error that error etc which frustruated me.

This process went upto 60 days. I decided to give up this survey venture because, answering the questions made me tired and slow internect connection made my life miserable.

So, I requested for refund from surveyscout.com and they honored. Thanks to them.

After getting my refund, I did not try any survey because I do not want to earn from survey . I also wanted to show the same honesty to surveyscout.com. After getting the refund, I did not open the email id created for the surveys.

But, through surveys, you can definitly see some money (if you have patience to answer the repetative quetions).

Not earning money through surveys is the mistake on my part only which I have to accept.